In the past week, I’ve had three Mississippi music-related items come my way. For the record, I lived in Greenville, Mississippi, for three-plus years not too long ago.

The first portion of the trilogy is a “Jamfactor” CD the paper received in the mail from Cleveland, Mississippi. Scott Coopwood is in the band, and he is also the publisher/owner of a newspaper up there where I worked ever so briefly.

Above his paper’s office he has a rather nice recording studio, and I remember photos of Scott with famous musicians and politicians.

I hadn’t listened to the CD yet, when I went to the band’s website where I learned the project reunited two old friends/musicians, Scott and Keith Wood, as well as other longtime friends and, “The end result is a return to 1970s rock along the lines of Kiss, Ted Nugent, Foreigner, and the other great rock bands of the era.”

Well, then, there’s a good chance I won’t be listening to the CD anytime soon. However, while checking out the band online, I did push the play button for a few song-bites.

There is truth in advertising after all — the songs sound just like 1970s rock. Oh, well, if you don’t remember your past, you’re bound to repeat it. And these guys have with this release. Not my cup of tea; never was, in fact.

The online press kit also recalls when Scott and Keith met in ninth grade and Keith mentioned Ted Nugent. “That caught my ear because I didn’t think anyone in this region of Mississippi had even heard of Ted Nugent. I was, and still am, an avid Ted Nugent fan.”

Nugent. Really? Nugent? Still? Really?

The second of this music trilogy came in an email from another (now former) Mississippi resident from Greenville, Lane Rodgers. Rodgers used to be Greenville’s airport director and then got into the hospitality industry for a while.

But he was always a musician, literally a one-man-band. Seems he left the Delta and he and his wife Becky now live in Arkansas just north of Shreveport.

Lane is now playing music full time. I think that’s great for someone to make that leap. He wrote that he has a CD with 12 original songs on it and wants to send it. Now that should be interesting and I’m looking forward to it.

The trilogy wraps with Anne Martin, a dear friend and former TV anchor who’s now executive director of the Greenville Arts Council. Anne recently posted on Facebook a video of Bruce Blackman singing his new song, “Jim’s Café,” which is also a restaurant located in the Port City on Washington Avenue.

Jim’s Café, the eatery, is a hangout for locals getting breakfast and a dose of morning gossip. At lunch, you’ll find updated gossip and juicy burgers. I could walk to the restaurant from my loft above the Greenville History Museum. Gus owns the joint and he is quite the story teller and a kind man.

I dropped by Jim’s Café recently and not much has changed. I was in town for the services of the late, great Nick Painter who saved my life during my three-year tour up there at the Delta Democrat Times. Sure do miss Nick and the world does, too — it just doesn’t know it yet.

Anyway, Anne told me Blackman is from Greenville and he wrote “Moonlight Feels Right.” Moonlight hit No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976 with his band Starbuck. I couldn’t recall the song, but when I listened to it online, Disco Era memories and all of those guilty pleasures came back like they do at a wedding reception when the disco ball starts spinning.

Blackman-Starbuck have a new album, “Moonlight Feels Right 2014,” coming in September with “Jim’s Café” on it. With other new songs, the release contain never released vintage songs from the ‘70s and ‘80s.

Some folks say when things come in threes, they’re usually bad. With the exception of a tired music genre, bad music/good times, and a one-man-band, that’s not necessarily what this is about; it’s more about coincidence.

Dominick Cross is entertainment writer for the Times of Acadiana and Daily Advertiser. Contact him at dcross@theadvertiser.com.